Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference (한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2002.03a
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- Pages.161-176
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- 2002
A Study on the RCS Enhancement Method of Passive RADAR Reflector Through Shaping
형상을 통한 수동형 레이더 리프렉터의 RCS 증대방법 연구
Abstract
Collision avoidance is the most important part of a small vessel. Small and mediurn sized ships are surprisingly poor targets for radar reflection and are frequently in danger of being overrun by large vessels, even under good condition of visibility. One of the best way to prevent collisions at sea is to use as large and well designed a radar reflector. Thus, RCS(Radar Cross Section) increase is key element in the design of radar reflector. Radar Reflectors are normally classified into active-type and passive-type. In this paper, the RCS increase methods for passive-type reflector through shaping are explained, and analyzed with RCS performance test by computer simulation. As results from analysis, It is shown that the effective diameter of radar reflector is over 10 λ to provide a return above the threshold RCS of 25m
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